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...so, this sucks. :(

https://comicbookclublive.com/2025/05/25/peter-david-dies-age-68/

Peter David, a legendary comic book writer known for his work on The Incredible Hulk, X-Factor, Spider-Man, and more, has died at age 68. The news comes via his wife, who reported that he passed away during the night on May 24, 2025, after a lengthy illness.

David’s first work was in prose and journalism, before snagging a job in Marvel’s sales department in the 1980s. There, he managed to impress editors, and his first published comic book work was in 1985’s The Spectacular Spider-Man #103. From there, he wrote the classic “The Death of Jean DeWolff” storyline in Spectacular Spider-Man, before moving over to his signature work on The Incredible Hulk.

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Writer: Alan Grant

Pencils: Norm Breyfogle

Inks: Steve Mitchell

Batman #455.

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Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Bill Sienkiewicz

Inks: Bill Sienkiewicz

If I had a Pound for every time Claremont changed a character's ethnicity...

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Writer: Jack Kirby

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Mike Royer

Orion Vs. Slig!

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Writer: Jack Kirby

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Mike Royer

If this guy’s name is Kanto, does he have brothers called Hoenn and Sinnoh?

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Blüdhaven's police've been part of the current run - the work of its ultimate villains (so far) has included giving those cops laser guns and jetpacks to deal with crime.

Issue #124 had Blüdhaven receiving more - walking tanks - and sending them against the city's gangs.

#125 opens not on what that climaxed in, but after with part of what came before - one of the lasers-and-jetpacks cops.

( He's drinking at a bar. )

Current Music: נסיונותיו של חנוך / the trials of enoch - Manila Ice

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Writer: Gerry Conway

Pencils: George Tuska

Inks: Mike Machlan

Aquaman puts Mera down long enough to realise that he should probably go and help the rest of the Justice League.

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Writers: John Ostrander and Timothy Truman

Pencils: Graham Nolan

Inks: Rich Burchett

Byth hires Shadow Thief to steal the Thanagarian ship.

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Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Mitch Byrd

Inks: Dan Davis

Guy is trying to reconcile with his estranged mother when he is attacked by a heavily-armed nutcase calling himself Militia.

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Writers: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning

Pencils: Brad Walker

Inks: Victor Olazaba and John Livesay

The Guardians of the Galaxy arrive just in time to save the Negative Zone prison being held under siege by Blastaar's forces.

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Writer: Len Wein

Pencils and inks: Dave Gibbons

Green Lantern has been called away on an urgent mission, so it falls to somebody else to save Ferris Aircraft. Enter: The Predator. The Destruction Team won’t have time to bleed!

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Writer: Jack Kirby

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Mike Royer

Darkseid doesn’t take kindly to the Forever People trashing his theme park.

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Writer: Alan Davis

Pencils: Alan Davis

Inks: Mark Farmer

Nightcrawler tries to turn the Technet in to a competent team. Pray for him.

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Writer: Alan Grant

Pencils: Norm Breyfogle

Inks: Steve Mitchell

This issue is told via flashback as Batman tells Tim what happened to his parents.

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I had a really good time kind of finding my level with Batman. I think the notes I got back for the first draft was that my Batman was a little too chummy and a little too quirky and a little too friendly. He needs to be a little bit spikier. And I was like, "Yeah, I get that." -- Al Ewing

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Writer: Jack Kirby

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Mike Royer

If you lived a former life, then you may become a victim of... the Reincarnators!

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Writer: Len Wein

Pencils: Paris Cullins

Inks: Bruce Patterson

These issues have got me interested in checking out the Question's book. Look out for that soon.

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Words and pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Mike Royer

People seemed to like my posts about Jack Kirby's Fourth World, so I thought I would start posting his run on Black Panther.

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Writer: Dennis O’Neil

Pencils: Joe Quesada

Inks: Kevin Nowlan

Azrael in final battle with his nemesis LeHah.

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Inspired by the recent Sabretooth postings, I thought it would be interesting to go back and see what he was like in his first appearance. Was he always the dangerous monster x-fans now know, or a blowhard who can't win even with the deck stacked his favor?

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I wrote all of the Venom captions, and then Joe wrote all of the Spider-Man captions and Charles wrote Eddie's captions. And then we all collaborated a little bit on the OTHER CAPTIONS. -- Al Ewing

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Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Michael Netzer

Inks: Scott Hanna

Knightfall prelude.

Batman must deal with a punk kid and his gang shooting up Gotham City.

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Writer: Stan Lee

Pencils: John Romita, Sr.

Inks: Sal Buscema

Gwen has gone to London to live with her uncle (and no other reason.) Peter follows, only to get pulled in to a terrorist plot.

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Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Alan Davis

Inks: Mark Farmer

Welcome to the X-Men, Elizabeth Braddock. We hope you survive the experience.

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Writer: Jeph Loeb

Pencils: Angel Pollina

Inks: Mark Pennington

Where is Siryn?

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That was part of my pitch, that maybe the DC Universe J'onn felt a little bit in between alien and human, in a way that wasn't a positive for the character, that wasn't a positive for readers. Where he is a little too alien to be relatable to, and maybe a little too human to really be awed by the alienness of him. And so that's part of why I separated the two characters and made John Jones a human being that we can relate to, and make the Martian this really strange alien consciousness that that has strange ideas that maybe that are not so relatable to us, and that's okay, because they're not really relatable to John either, and John's our way in and through John, hopefully we'll come to see whether those ideas are palatable or not. -- Deniz Camp

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Script: Chris Claremont

Plot: Jim Lee & Whilce Portacio

Pencils: Whilce Portacio

Inks: Art Thibert

Louise Simonson is gone and the Image lads have taken over. Claremont is just there to try and make sense of things. Your mileage may vary regarding whether he is successful.

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Writer: John Byrne

Pencils: John Byrne

Inks: John Byrne

Wonder Woman (1987) #128.

Diana is busy being the Goddess of Truth at this time, so it falls to the rest of the Wonder-family to deal with the new Egg Fu.

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Writers: John Byrne and Jerry Ordway

Pencils: Jerry Ordway

Inks: Dennis Janke

Adventures of Superman #444.

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

In the search for non contentious news (because there's a lot of the alternative flying around) I did find this amazing story about a bucket. but not just ANY old bucket!

Sesame Street will be continuing on Netflix after PBS had it's funding cut

Despite being the nominally "silly" episode about a pastiche of the Eurovision Song Contest, Doctor Who had not one, but TWO major plot reveals, one of which was confirming a long-standing rumour about Mrs Flood, and the other was (for this spoiler-free viewer) breath-taking to see, and a pointed (and honestly rather disturbing) reminder that even this "Post-therapy" incarnation of the Doctor does not cope well with loss. A reminder of ROT13 for spoilers on this one please!

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Writer: Roger Stern

Pencils: Tom Lyle

Inks: Bob Smith

Starman has his first fight with a super-villain.

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Writer: Ron Marz

Pencils: Ron Lim

Inks: Tom Christopher

Jack of Hearts is dying and he needs the Silver Surfer’s help.

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Writer: Bill Mantlo

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Inks: Sal Buscema

Rom gets into his first misunderstanding fight and of course it is Jack of Hearts.

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Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Bill Sienkiewicz

Inks: Bill Sienkiewicz

Dani is rushed to hospital, but the Demon Bear isn’t finished with her.

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Writer: Jack Kirby

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Vince Colletta

O'Ryan isn’t the most inspired alias. Orion might as well have called himself Ian Cognito.

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Like the first three-parter in the maxi-series, We Are The Wounded, it had a sense motif.

That one was tactile - a serial killer with the inability to feel, and the other antagonist of the story being punished with a lingering injury.

This one's audial - taking place in a very acoustic Gotham City apartment building.

It opens after a cop's been thrown out a window - Batman and Jim Gordon discussing the cop's autopsy, marks on his wrists and neck.

( They're outside the building. )

Current Music: Where It Abruptly Ends - heaven silhouettes

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Writer: Jack Kirby

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Mike Royer

Mr. Miracle encounters money grubbing conman Funky Flashman. Excelsior!

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Writer: Gerry Conway

Pencils: George Tuska

Inks: Mike Machlan

The Justice League are fighting for their lives while Aquaman is canoodling with his estranged wife.

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Writers: John Ostrander and Timothy Truman

Pencils and inks: Graham Nolan

Shayera rides along with the Chicago Police Department.

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Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Chris Hunter

Inks: Terry Beatty

Guy Gardner #15.

Guy gets back to Earth only to find out his clone has framed him for murder.

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Writers: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning

Pencils: Brad Walker and Carlos Magno

Inks: Victor Olazaba and Jack Purcell

Blastaar sends Peter Quill in to the Negative Zone prison to negotiate their surrender.

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Writer: Len Wein

Pencils and inks: Dave Gibbons

The Demolition Team have been hired to destroy Ferris Aircraft, but Green Lantern is nowhere to be seen.

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